29 March, 2013

Hello BloggersSandrine's little girl is the star in this albumSandrine explains:

'"An Ode to a Summer's Day" is such a
pretty collection, I did not have any trouble finding inspiration. The soft
yellow tones in the papers remind me of my little girl's beach blond hair, so I
decided to create a mini album with my 10 favourite photos of her in 2012. I
mainly used yellow, green and beigy colours throughout the album, I wanted
to give it a very soft touch. I also wanted to add some funky elements to my
overall design such as banners, polaroid photo frames and some personal touches
such as dry embossing and punched circles.

Love the square doilies, I cut the borders off and used as accent
throughout the album

Love the ferns in the papers! And I also cut
some of the words out as embellishments!

Here I used a doily for my background instead of dry embossing:

I cut some triangles out of Meg's paper to make
little banners, I repeated this element throughout the album to tie the design
together!

A gorgeous book & what a fabulous reminder of your beautiful little girl in 2012 - treasured memories. Well done Sandrine.

Each page is wonderful - love the way you have styled your book so that each page is different but remains part of the hole. The chippies are fab as are your choice of embellishments with flowers, rosettes & banners.

27 March, 2013

'I had a layout to
send you but I was contacted by Scrapbooking Memories to post it to them so I
can't give that one to you now.

I have card to
share though, I make cards all the time, but I rarely put them on my blog. Mainly
because I usually make the card for an occasion and off it goes on it's merry
way... out of my life and into someone else's!

So this card has been made for an upcoming wedding
and I've used sketch #50 at retro sketches…'

I
have made a posy out of some lovely Manor House Creations "Taneisha"
flowers and all the patterned papers, transparencies, ribbon and
lace trim are all from Meg's
Garden.

I've mixed two
collections here - The French Garden Collection (Pink Passion) and the new Ode
to a Summer's Day Collection (Green Stripes of Summer). I love how these
collections can so easily be used together for colour contrast, whilst still
complimenting each other so well.

I also have some fantastic news, Meg! My layout featuring
little Heidi is on the front cover of the latest issue of Scrapbook
Creations!!! Soooo excited! I have put the cover on my blog -
although I haven't seen it in real life yet (subscribers have their copies
early!) - now I'm wishing I was a subscriber!!! Lol!

Love the card Chantal & I particularly love the fact that it is not the trad white & silver wedding theme. Well done. The combination of papers is great; the touch of purple really creates a statement & the cluster of flowers in the same purple, yellow & pink finishes it perfectly.

Fab news on the front cover spot!! Have put the magazine on my 'to do list' to stop in at the newsagent.

22 March, 2013

Hello BloggersHeather explains her LO:'These new papers are such a delight to work with and I
decided to compliment them with some roses and blooms and a photo to match . I
have used green cardstock to tone in with the Summer papers and inked random
sections with a mask and stamping and gesso .

Leaves Cluster

The leaves are diecut with Cottage cutz /leafy foliage – using a combination of The Summers Dance and
A Summers Day papers. Cottage cutz /leafy foliage

Thanks for popping by and hope you are inspired to have a
play with these divine summery papers.

Hugz from Heather x'

Heather - your layouts are so outstanding & this one is no exception - absolutely fabulous. Well done. There are so many elements, layers & embellishments - do not know where to start - so gorgeous - each & every piece. The stitching, the pink brads, the stamping & the clusters. I am blown away.

Your LO was the reason that I purchased the Cottage Cutz Leafy Foliage die for the web site

20 March, 2013

Sylvie also believes in doing a card on all sides & shows us how she does it:

What a beautiful card to receive - this is certainly one that will be kept forever. Well done Sylvie. Love the way you have done all sides of the card - I do not know which page I love the most - they are all exquisite. The hanging tag on the front is a special touch.Sylvie has used the Forget Me Not Collection of papers, laces, a doily, flowers & butterflies - so beautiful

18 March, 2013

Hello BloggersStephanie is also working with the new papers - Ode to a Summer's Day in her card & layout.

'“Love
is Timeless” Card

I used the new “Ode to Summer’s Day”
collection for this card. I thought that the image of the man and woman would
be nice for a card that could be used at anytime of the year to give to someone
you care about.

I cut the base for my card out of a pale
green cardstock which, when folded in half would make a 5” x 7” card. I cut the
bottom 5” x 7” out of the “Summer’s Dance” paper. What I love about these
papers is there is the 4” x 12” strip of matching papers to the 12” x 12” sheet
which is perfect for when you're making cards, you don’t have to cut into that
pretty 12” x 12” piece, you can save that for a layout or another project. So I
cut out the image of the man & woman out of the 4” x 12” strip of paper,
which would be 3” x 4”. Out of the 4” x 12” strip of a “Summer’s Day” I cut a
piece 5½” x 1 ¾” and I then used a piece
of Green Toile paper that I had in my stash approximately 4 x 1 ½. I distressed
and inked all of the papers and laid them out as shown in the photo. I added a
strip of lace down the left side of the card and added one of the white Meadows
flowers and used two of the Dusty Attic leaves in the top left corner.'

'Ode to Summer’s Day

Buds of May P6335

A Summer’s Dance P6337

A Summer’s Day P6333

Flower – mead Meadows

Lace L2920

Leaves da810

Green Toile P6295

Other Items Used

Mini alphabet letters

Green Alphabet stickers

Green rhinestones'

'Back-In-Time Layout

I
love these new papers from the “Ode to a Summer’s Day” collection by Denise
Ann. For this layout I used “A Summer’s Day”, “A Summer’s Dance” and “A Summer
Bouquet”. I distressed all the papers on
this layout with my distress tool and also some Vintage Photo distress ink by
Rangers. I die cut the Summers Day paper and then laid that down on a piece of
pale green card stock and another piece of paper from my stash.

For
the pieces under my photo (yes that’s me way back in 1955, lol) I cut one of
the corners off the Bond 25 Square doily and used some of the distress ink on
that. I then cut a piece from the top left of the Summers Dance paper (to get
the paper that was more of a red color) and then a smaller piece of the Summers
Day 4” strip (so it was a bit darker green shade).

The
Summer Bouquet paper is definitely made for fussy cutting! So I fussy cut three
pieces of the flowers from the paper to lay around the photo. I then took one
of the white gardenias and inked it with Fired Brick distress ink and laid that
down over the fussy cut flowers along with two of the Lilac & Lavender
paper roses.

To
finish off the layout I used some green alphabet stickers from my stash and
outlined them with a fine tip black sharpie. I know you’ll love working with
these new papers just as I do, TFL!'

16 March, 2013

'I´m totally in love with the new beautiful collection!
The pretty colors and the gorgeous patterns made me create with heart, soul and joy! For my page I have used
Summers Dance and Apple Blossom. I used it as background and for

all my die-cut doilies and the banner too. I have also
used Basket weave rectangle doily and Grassy Knoll flowers. One thing that
really set the feeling on my page is the large flower from Manor
house creations. To make some interesting color dots I used the cute Forget me not Flowers in Antique purple color. A
really fun page to create!

Hope you liked it! Hugs from Ulrika!'

I totally love it Ulrika - well done. Love the use of the doilies; the flower clusters are really gorgeous & I really like the placement of the photo. You have used the new Ode to Summer's Day collection of papers especially well.

14 March, 2013

Hello BloggersDenise Ann shows us her card using one of the new papers:

She has fussy cut around the apples on the front so that you can see the inside of the card.The inside of the card has been decorated with the balance of the paper - P6332 Apple Blossom.Denise Ann is famous for her cards but she says ' a card is not finished until the inside is' & this is a perfect example of what she means.

12 March, 2013

Hello BloggersAs you know, I do not carry many stamps but I always make an exception for the LaBlanche range - the designer Jacqueline Blanche is not only fantastic at creating such artistic & unusual stamps but is also a true artist when it comes to their use - some of her creations using the new stamps can be seen at my web site:

11 March, 2013

'Creating canvases are very popular at the moment and I have seen many turned around, reversed, this enables you to create a shadow box effect.

I decided to give it a go creating one with the new papers, “Ode to a Summer’s Day”.'

'I
created the 3D Summer Bird House using the Tim
Holtz - Artful Dwellings diecut. I
fuzzy cut the apples and leaves from the Apple
Blossom paper and with the inside part of this paper I
diecut the leaves. I added the rich burgundy colour of the velvet flowers from Meg’s Garden.

What a beautiful Summer's Garden - so much work & a fabulous result - well done Adriana.

I love all the embellishing you have done; the leaves trailing up the side of the canvas & the way you have made them 3D; the flower bouquets, the way you have fuzzy cut the paper to create the window & the corner scrap flourishes are a beautiful final touch. Your choice of chippies is perfect.

07 March, 2013

Hello BloggersGayle shows us her take using 1 paper from the Ode to a Summer's Day Collection - she chose to use 'Summer Beauty'

Summer Beauty - This is the paper called Summer Beauty P6334 so that you can see how Gayle has used the cartouche in the centre to frame her beautiful photo & the various elements to embellish the Layout.Well done Gayle - a fabulous layout & what a marvellous use of the beautiful paper More projects to come using this Summer CollectionBye for nowMegwww.megsgarden.com

01 March, 2013

Hello BloggersVicky uses the new Ode to Summer papers in the following LO:

Vicky explains:' I have used some gorgeous Meg's Garden papers from the new "Ode to a Summer's Day" collection, plus the brand new Dusty Attic chipboard floral corners. All that combined with a doily and a few Green Tara flowers for a shabbylicious finish. These papers have such a beautiful pattern on them that you don't need to do much to achieve a polished layout.'